Media: BOOK - paperback, 48 pages
Author: H.W. Webb
Year: 1992

25 Illustrations

OPENING PARAGRAPHS

On 22 March 1923 I boarded the SS Barrabool (22,000 tons) at Tilbury Docks bound for Australia, landing in Adelaide on 29 April to start a new life.

Jobs on offer in London at that time were hard to come by but my mother secured a job at a wholesale clothing distributors at which my father and also my grandfather had toiled. I found myself in the despatch room writing invoices all day, being kicked around by senior persons and being only 15 years old ...

CONTENTS
My Story by Horace William Webb
Some of the Life of Reinhardt Habel
The Time of Your Life
Immigration Department Letter
Family Tree